I love a blog's simplistic layout. However, they are also (generally) well designed. The
default choices at Blogger or Typepad are (mostly) all attractive. Well chosen fonts and remote style sheets allow people to express themselves without mucking up the design.

That
being said, after months of looking at my own blog, I decided that I
wanted our designer to take a crack at it. (He will soon.)

There will be a lot more custom designs for blogs going
forward, both for better or worse. No matter how nice the default
layouts may be, (compared to so many poorly designed Web sites out
there,) ultimately people will want to express their individuality
through design as well as through content.

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Great post! I think blog design does matter but content is most important. I wrote an article/post about blog design on my blog. I speak mainly from a readers point of view. Unless a blog has great content I will not suffer through bad desgin for very long. I also don't think you should go so far the other direction that your blog looks like a feed reader. The post is called Blog Design is Important - The 3 Do's and Don'ts >>>http://www.timetobudget.com/2007/01/10/blog-design-is-important-the-3-dos-and-donts/